San Francisco has 10 police stations: Central, Northern, Southern, Bayview, Ingleside, Taraval, Richmond, Park, Mission and Tenderloin. The city makes crime data available to the public online through DataSF.

San Francisco has 10 police stations: Central, Northern, Southern, Bayview, Ingleside, Taraval, Richmond, Park, Mission and Tenderloin. The city makes crime data available to the public online through DataSF.

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The Mission District covers the area east of Twin Peaks and south of Market Street to Cesar Chavez Street. The neighborhood has become a destination spot for specialty restaurants, shops and sunny-day people watching. However, the area has seen a huge rise in thefts in 2017.

The Mission District covers the area east of Twin Peaks and south of Market Street to Cesar Chavez Street. The neighborhood has become a destination spot for specialty restaurants, shops and sunny-day people

Capt. Griffin grew up in the Richmond District and attended George Washington High School. His father was a juvenile probation officer with the city for over 30 years and encouraged him to try a career in law enforcement. Griffin graduated from the SFPD Academy in 1981 and later earned a degree in Criminal Justice Management. He has served in the Mission, Southern, Park, Northern and Ingleside stations.

Southern District incorporates the Ferry Building, extending to the SOMA, Embarcadero, and China Basin areas.

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Southern District incorporates the Ferry Building, extending to the SOMA, Embarcadero, and China Basin areas.

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Southern Station Captain: Daryl Fong

Capt. Fong grew up in the Bayview District and attended school in North Beach. Not ascribing to the traditional academic criminology path, he earned a BS degree in marketing at SFSU and then joined the SFPD in 1994. Fong trained at Richmond Station and served at Central Station as a patrol, plainclothes and school resource officer and has also served as a field training sergeant, internal affairs investigator and media relations spokesman.

Central Station is located in the center of tourism, commerce, entertainment and civic events. The district comprises the Financial district, Chinatown, North Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf, and three famous hills: Telegraph, Nob and Russian.

Capt. Yep was born at San Francisco’s Chinese Hospital and raised in Chinatown. He attended Lowell High School and earned a BA degree in Business Administration from San Francisco State University. He joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1996, serving as a patrol officer at Central, Northern, Southern and Taraval Police Stations. He has also worked in the Community Relations Unit, Domestic Violence Reduction Unit, Vice Crimes Division, Station Investigations Teams and was the Director of Basic Training for the Police Academy until his promotion to Captain in 2016.

The Northern District encompasses the Western Addition, Pacific Heights, Japantown, Polk Gulch, Russian Hill and the Marina. Although the Northern District is geographically one of the smallest, it’s one of the most densely populated with large apartment buildings, senior citizens’ residences, residential hotels, and public housing complexes.

Capt. Jaimerena was born in the Sunset and grew up on the peninsula. He joined SFPD in 1994 and spent much of his early career as a plainclothes and field training officer in the Southern Station. He later worked with the Gang Task Force at Tenderloin Station and became captain of Northern Station in 2016.

The Park District serves Cole Valley, Haight Street, the Western Addition, Twin Peaks, and the Duboce and Castro areas. They work in patrol cars, on foot beats, patrol wagons and off-road vehicles in and out of Golden Gate Park.

Capt. Sanford was born and raised in the Bayview/Hunters Point area and began his law enforcement career at age 14 as a Police Activities League cadet. Sanford attended Woodrow Wilson High School in San Francisco and holds a B.S. in public administration from the USF and an M.A. in leadership from Saint Mary’s.

The Taraval District encompasses a large area of the western part of the city, extending from west of Twin Peaks to Ocean Beach and south to the county line and north to Lincoln Way. The Taraval district is mostly residential and contains many schools and the zoo.

Capt. Flaherty grew up in the Mission District and joined SFPD in 1991. She has served in Central, Northern, Taraval, Richmond, Ingleside, Tenderloin and Park districts and has worked in the Narcotics Unit, Burglary Detail, Homeland Security, and in the Tenderloin Task Force. She became Captain of Taraval Station in 2012.

The Bayview District covers one of the largest areas of the southeastern part of the city, extending along the eastern edge of McClaren Park to the bay and south to the San Mateo County line. The Ingleside Police District encompasses the area south of Cesar Chavez Street to the San Mateo County line, and area west from Highway 101 to Faxon Avenue and includes Balboa Park, McLaren Park and the Excelsior.

Capt. Vaswani has more than 23 years of experience as a police officer, working in patrol, street crimes/narcotics plainclothes, investigative and field operations. He has worked in the Potereo, Ingleside, Southern, Northern, Park and Mission districts.

Capt. Joe McFadden grew up in the Mission District. With more than 27 years in the SFPD, he began his law enforcement career as an Ingleside station patrol officer and has since served in Field Operations, Tactical (SWAT) Team, Investigations Bureau, Management Control/Internal Affairs, Homeland Security, and Crime Scene Investigations.

The Tenderloin District is the smallest of 10 district station areas. The Tenderloin Task Force was created on April 1st 1991 (with SF’s first bicycle patrol) to combat high levels of crime in that area and made its headquarters in the basement of the historic Hibernia Bank building. A new headquarters opened in 2000 at 301 Eddy St.

Capt. Ewins spent her early years in SoCal but moved to the East Bay at age 10. She graduated from the SFPD Academy in 1995 and has since worked in the Southern, Mission, and Bayview stations. She has served in the Homeland Security Unit, the Special Victims Unit and the Fugitive Recovery Enforcement Team and led the Tactical Division before becoming Tenderloin Station captain in 2015.

Covering the northwest corner of the city, the Richmond District is largely residential, but also includes the commercial, shopping, and restaurant corridors of Geary Boulevard and Clement Street, most of Golden Gate Park, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the University of San Francisco campus.

Capt. Alexa O’Brien grew up in the Marina and Richmond districts. She earned a BA degree in sociology with a minor in criminology from USF before graduating from the SFPD academy in 2000. She has served at Southern, Mission, Northern, Park and Ingleside stations. In addition, she has served in Vice and Night Investigations and led the Homicide Detail and Major Crimes Unit.

A 22-year-old woman holding her daughter’s hand as they waited to cross a street in downtown San Francisco was beaten in an apparent unprovoked attack by an assailant, who remained on the loose Friday, police said.

The victim, whose name was not released, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the assault that occurred around 9:26 p.m. Wednesday in the 1000 block of Market Street, according to police.

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The woman was holding her daughter’s hand and standing at an intersection when the assailant approached from the front and punched her, according to a police report. The assailant continued to assault her after she fell to the ground, according to police.

The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment. Her daughter was not injured in the attack.

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